Thermal Imaging Device Reference Image Overlay for Normative Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current thermal imaging devices rely heavily on subjective experience, leading to inconsistencies in capturing the correct imaging shape, position, and angle of thermal images, resulting in missed key parts and poor data analysis due to the lack of normative thermal images.
Innovation Solution
A thermal imaging device and method that displays a reference image with specified morphological characteristics alongside the infrared thermal image, allowing users to accurately grasp the imaging shape, position, and angle, thereby facilitating the recording of normative thermal images through the integration of an acquiring part, reference image determining part, position determining part, and display controlling part.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users rely on subjective experience to photograph thermal images, then operation simplicity is maintained, but imaging precision and consistency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically determining the standard imaging position, dimension, and angle of the photographed object before the user captures the thermal image. The control part pre-calculates the optimal photographing parameters based on the object's spatial coordinates, eliminating the need for users to manually adjust settings and ensuring consistent, accurate imaging without increasing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by displaying the determined standard imaging position, dimension, and angle information to the user during the photographing process. This visual feedback guides the user to align the thermal imaging device correctly with the target object, improving imaging precision while maintaining simple operation through intuitive on-screen guidance.
2Reliability
If normative thermal images are recorded with precise positioning, then data analysis effectiveness is improved, but operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies self-service by automatically performing the complex tasks of determining imaging parameters, calculating standard positions, and providing guidance information without requiring user intervention. The control part autonomously processes spatial coordinates and generates photographing instructions, allowing users to simply follow the displayed guidance while the system handles the complex normalization processes in the background.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-determining all necessary imaging parameters and standardization criteria before the user initiates photographing. The control part calculates the optimal imaging configuration in advance based on object characteristics, so users only need to execute the pre-planned photographing action without dealing with complex analysis requirements during operation.
3Productivity
If manual analysis methods are used for thermal images, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity and analysis efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically determining and recording the standard imaging parameters (position, dimension, angle) during the photographing process itself. This pre-processing of normalization data during image capture eliminates the need for complex manual analysis later, enabling efficient batch processing while keeping the device complexity manageable through integrated automatic parameter determination.
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AI summary
This invention provides a thermal imaging device and a normative photographing method for a thermal image. In the prior art, when the thermal imaging device is used, a photographing part, angle, and distance of a photographed object are selected according to subjective experience of users, thus lowering photographing speeds and having omissions, and a position, dimension, and angle of thermal images of similar photographed objects in infrared thermal images photographed each time are different, causing subsequent analysis trouble. In this invention, via a reference image with a specified position and dimension presented in the infrared thermal image and reflecting specified morphological characters of the photographed object, a visual reference of predetermined thermal image quality and photographing requirements of the photographing object is provided, assisting the users to correctly grasp imaging states and photographing distances of the thermal image, thereby acquiring uniform normative thermal image of the photographed object.